{"id":45,"date":"2007-10-05T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/10\/giuliani-on-evangelical-threat.html"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T11:23:42","slug":"giuliani-on-evangelical-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/10\/giuliani-on-evangelical-threat.html","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani on Evangelical Threat: Don&#8217;t Worry, Be Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Focus on the Family&#8217;s James Dobson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/04\/opinion\/04dobson.html?_r=2&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">going public yesterday<\/a> with his threat to back a third-party candidate against Rudy Giuliani, the press corps accompanying the ex-Mayor is <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/03\/giuliani-dismisses-conservative-threat\/\">obsessively asking him<\/a> about his troubles with the Christian Right. Giuliani appeared to brush them aside: \u201cI don\u2019t worry a lot&#8230;. Political pluses and minuses are not one of the things to worry about.&#8221; Asked whether evangelicals would be as important in the &#8217;08 presidential race as in previous cycles, Giuliani turned Yogi Berra philosophical: &#8220;You know when we\u2019ll find out who is going to be influential in this year\u2019s election? When it\u2019s over.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Giulianis&#8217; more telling remark, the one that&#8217;s become his familiar refrain, appears calibrated for Christian ears. &#8220;[M]aybe people of faith can respect someone who is honest with them,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;With me, you know what you\u2019re going to get.\u201d After the alleged deceptions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/05\/washington\/05senate.html?ref=politics\">Larry Craig<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/nation\/5127317.html\">David Vitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/09\/29\/congressman.e.mails\/\">Mark Foley<\/a>&#8211;God-o-Meter could go on (and on) but its space is limited&#8211;could this simple pledge of honesty have special resonance among religious voters? God-o-Meter is not naive; it knows the message&#8217;s appeal will be somewhat limited. But it also knows that the Giuliani doesn&#8217;t have to win the evangelical vote to seal up his party&#8217;s nomination. He just has to not lose it entirely.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Focus on the Family&#8217;s James Dobson going public yesterday with his threat to back a third-party candidate against Rudy Giuliani, the press corps accompanying the ex-Mayor is obsessively asking him about his troubles with the Christian Right. Giuliani appeared to brush them aside: \u201cI don\u2019t worry a lot&#8230;. 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